Your forecast
Cloudy, with rain beginning this morning and ending this afternoon, amount 5 mm. Wind becoming northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 early this morning. Temperature falling to 5 C this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Tonight, Low Life Barrel House (398 Daly St. N) welcomes Vancouver chef Billy Nguyen (Bar Sodalite, Pizza Coming Soon), who has prepared a five-course tasting menu. The dinner gets underway at 6:30 p.m.; tickets are $100 per person plus taxes and fees, with curated drinks from Low Life available with every course for an additional $30. For tickets and more information see wfp.to/C0b.
Tonight at 7 p.m., McNally Robinson will host Winnipeg-born, B.C.-based jaz papadopolous for the launch of their new poetry collection I Feel That Way Too as well as a conversation with Winnipeg’s Hannah Godfrey.
Today’s must-read
After years of headlines about frigid rides to and from Winnipeg, heat on commercial buses will be mandatory this winter, the province announced Monday.
New bus safety laws will require functional passenger heating systems effective Nov. 1. Previously, there was no provincial requirement for heaters in passenger areas of buses, aside from school buses.
Bus operators must examine their heat systems daily and provincial bus inspectors will conduct random stops. They will have the authority to place any vehicle that doesn’t comply out of service. Gabrielle Piché has the story.
Riders board a bus to the Pas in Winnipeg in 2019. (John Woods / Free Press files)
On the bright side
They say it takes a village to raise a child. But it takes 2,200 small tiles of art joined together to connect a community.
That’s the implied message behind a new St. James-area mural unveiled Monday — a sea of colour in the shape of a hearty tree that can’t be missed when travelling west on Portage Avenue at Hampton Street. Skye Anderson has more here.
Some of the participants in the Canada Connects Love & Family mosaic mural pose for a group photo. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 22, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported J.C. Collinson, legislative counsel in the provincial government, was one of three people killed when a match lit during work on a new oil furnace in his home sparked an explosion; two others were injured in the incident. John Queen entered the Winnipeg mayoralty race as the Independent Labor party candidate. In Ottawa, two Winnipeg pilots had their flying licences revoked, arising from a fatality in Lake Winnipeg the previous August. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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